THE LA RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE - “These figures do not attempt to allege that foreign
nationals in the country illegally commit more
crimes than other groups,” the report states. “It
simply identifies thousands of crimes that should
not have occurred and thousands of victims that
should not have been victimized because the
perpetrator should not be here.”
CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON

And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in
on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the
U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues
that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.

“PUNISH OUR ENEMIES”…
does that mean assault the legals of Arizona that must fend off the Mexican
invasion, occupation, growing criminal and welfare state, as well as Mex Drug
cartels???

OBAMA TELLS ILLEGALS
“PUNISH OUR ENEMIES”

Friends
of ALIPAC,

Each day new reports come in from across the nation that our movement is
surging and more incumbents, mostly Democrats, are about to fall on Election
Day. Obama's approval ratings are falling to new lows as he makes highly
inappropriate statements to Spanish language audiences asking illegal alien
supporters to help him "punish our enemies."

THE BUSH FAMILY HAS LONG BEEN IN BED WITH THE FILTHY SAUDIS. DO A SEARCH FOR BIG BUSH - SAUDIS OIL and the CARLYLE GROUP. THE BUSH FAMILY HAS NOW STARTED TWO WARS AGAINST SAUDIS ENEMY IRAQ.

OBAMA AND THE CLINTONS, ALONG WITH THEIR WAR PROFITEER WHORE and CAMPAIGN DONOR SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN ARE HUNTING FOR ANOTHER WAR AGAINST IRAN ON BEHALF OF THEIR SAUDIS PAYMASTERS.

WE ALL CRINGED AT THE SIGHT OF OBAMA KNEELING LIKE A SERF TO KISS THE HEM OF THE SAUDIS ROYAL LARDBUCKET.

HILLARY AND BILLARY HAVE RAKED IN MILLIONS OF BRIBES TO THEIR BILLARY LIBRARY FROM MUSLIM DICTATORS, PARTICULARLY THE FILTHY SAUDIS.

Saudi Arabia is prime source of terror funds, U.S. says

Treasury official expresses frustrations with the
administration's efforts to force action by the kingdom. A Senate panel orders
a review.

By Josh Meyer
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

April 2, 2008

WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia remains the world's leading source of money for Al
Qaeda and other extremist networks and has failed to take key steps requested
by U.S. officials to stem the flow, the Bush administration's top financial
counter-terrorism official said Tuesday.

Stuart A. Levey, a Treasury undersecretary, told a Senate committee that the
Saudi government had not taken important steps to go after those who finance
terrorist organizations or to prevent wealthy donors from bankrolling extremism
through charitable contributions, sometimes unwittingly.

"Saudi Arabia today remains the location where more money is going to
terrorism, to Sunni terror groups and to the Taliban than any other place in
the world," Levey said under questioning.

U.S. officials have previously identified Saudi Arabia as a major source of
funding for extremism. But Levey's comments were notable because, although
reluctant to directly criticize a close U.S. ally, he acknowledged frustration
with administration efforts to persuade the Saudis and others to act.

"We continue to face significant challenges as we move forward with these
efforts, including fostering and maintaining the political will among other
governments to take effective and consistent action," Levey said, later
adding: "Our work is not nearly complete."

Levey was the sole witness before the Senate Finance Committee, which Tuesday
ordered an independent review of the efforts to choke off financing used by Al
Qaeda and other extremist groups.

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the committee chairman, announced the review at the
end of the hearing held to assess the money-tracking campaign by Treasury's
Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, headed by Levey.

The Bush administration created the office in 2004 to spearhead efforts to
disrupt the flow of money to extremist causes, primarily from wealthy donors in
Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Persian Gulf.

However, U.S. officials and counter-terrorism experts have said that
international support for the effort has waned while terrorist groups have
found ways around the financial restrictions. At the same time, there have been
turf battles among the 19 federal agencies that work on the problem.

Senators praised work done by Levey but expressed concerns about the overall
U.S. effort. The committee's Democratic and Republican leaders cited a Los
Angeles Times report last week detailing problems undermining the effort.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican, said extremist groups
had adapted to changing U.S. investigative methods: "We are simply not
prepared right now to keep up with them and put them out of business once and
for all."

Levey said the campaign has succeeded in disrupting terrorist financing by
freezing suspicious assets and in gathering intelligence that could be used to
identify extremists and disrupt their activities.

But under questioning by senators, Levey also spoke of difficulty in getting
Saudi Arabia to take the steps U.S. officials consider necessary.

Levey said the Saudis had been aggressive in going after terrorist cells. But
he said they had not lived up to promises to establish the kind of financial
intelligence unit needed to trace the money trails of terrorists. Another
problem is that the Saudi government has not set up a charity oversight
commission to track whether donations end up in the hands of extremists.

Levey said the Saudi government has not moved to publicly hold accountable
those within the kingdom who have been the subject of enforcement actions by
the U.S. and other authorities.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said the Saudi failures mean that Americans who pay
more than $100 a barrel for oil are in effect bankrolling extremism because
wealthy Saudis "back-door" their profits into charities that fund
extremist causes.

Nail Jubeir, press attache for the Saudi embassy in Washington, dismissed those
concerns, saying the Bush administration has repeatedly praised Saudi Arabia
for its efforts to combat terrorism.

"We have been very vigilant in our campaign against terrorism
financing," Jubeir said. "We have come a long way since 9/11 on this
issue."

Jubeir confirmed that Saudi Arabia has not set up the financial intelligence
unit or charity commission, but said it was cracking down on the financiers of
terrorism in other ways, such as making it illegal for anyone to send money
outside the kingdom "without going through official government
channels."

Alleged financiers of terrorism identified by the United States are being
investigated, and their assets have been frozen, Jubeir said. "But unless
we have evidence to try them . . . we don't parade them in public," he
said. "What if it turns out they are innocent?"

At the hearing, senators also expressed concern about disputes among U.S.
agencies and other administrative and investigative functions of Levey's
office. Baucus and Grassley asked that the Government Accountability Office
review its internal efficiency and effectiveness as well as its cooperation
with foreign governments.

Levey said he had not seen the request from Baucus and Grassley, but added:
"We welcome any source of advice as to how we can improve."

Is
Saudi Arabia Waging Resource Aggression Against the American People and the
World Economy?

Imagine waking up to the following
nightmare headline "Canada Interdicts the Head Waters of the Missouri and
Mississippi Rivers and All Water Flows From Its Territory Into the Great
Lakes." One's reaction would not be passive nor that of our government to
such a blatant act of resource aggression. And if you permit a glib
interjection, any argumentation that , "well its water on their side of
the border" would hold no water whatsoever. The deterioration of relations
between the United States and Canada would be immediate, grave, and
threatening.

Yet in degree, this is the current
status of our resource relationship with the Saudis. Consider the following. On
March 5, 2007 in a first page article "Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into
Old Wells", the New York Times reported that Nansen G. Saleri, the head of
reservoir management at the state owned Saudi Aramco reported that Saudi
Arabia's total reserves were almost three times higher than the kingdom's
officially published figure of 260 billion barrels. He estimated the kingdom's
resources at 716 billion barrels. Mr. Saleri continued that he wouldn't be
surprised if ultimate reserves of Saudi Arabia reached a trillion,
(1,000,000,000,000) barrels!

This amazing revelation coming from
the reservoir manager of Aramco underlines the degree to which the Saudis have
perverted the current world oil market. The Saudis are the putative leaders of
OPEC and their capabilities and objectives determine OPEC's policy goals. It is
clear as the International Energy Agency phrased it in their recent report,
"The greater the increase in the call of oil and gas...the more likely it
will be that they will seek a higher rent from their exports and to impose
higher prices ... by deferring investment and constraining production."

Saudi Arabia, given its enormous
reserves, could readily produce significant additional quantities of oil in
order to abate the steep run up of oil prices. At these price levels the fact
they and OPEC are maintaining the major portion of their production cuts made
at the beginning of this year (OPEC's production cut of 1.7 million barrels/day
altered by a production increase of only 500,000 barrels/day starting this
month) is smoking gun evidence of their extortionist intent. By holding oil off
the market, oil which they clearly have in ample supply, they are gouging the
world's economies, pricing their product at levels that have no market
rationale whatsoever. They are preying on the world's need for oil. It is an
act of resource aggression against the world's consumers much as Canada's
hypothetical interference with the headwaters of our major river ways would be
an act of aggression against the United States.

Please note in my title I referred
to waging resource aggression against the American people. The government was
not mentioned because in this imbroglio our administration is in effect Saudi
Arabia's, as well as OPEC's and the oil patch's greatest ally. In the near
seven years of its Presidency, virtually nothing has been done to constrain
Saudi Arabia's policies. On the contrary our President and Vice President are
so wedded to the oil industry's interests that the enormous increase in oil
prices during their tenure can well be ascribed to willful lack of any forceful
policies to counter the Saudi extortion. This has manifested itself in many
ways.

Let me just cite a few:

‑ In the near seven years of the Bush presidency, virtually no serious
steps have been taken to significantly abate demand for fossil fuels;

‑ The nations Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been used to underpin
escalating prices by continuing purchases even as prices exploded, thereby
signaling the governments acceptance and approval of these price levels, and
worse by declaring the doubling of the Reserve just as crude oil prices were
retreating to $50/bbl earlier this year.

‑ Neither through "friendly persuasion" nor as a Dutch Uncle,
making Saudi Arabia understand its price and production policies are
intolerable. This even though we are in essence the guarantors of last resort
of Saudi Arabia's independence as evidenced by the some $100 million dollars a
day being expended from this nation's treasury on our naval flotilla stationed
off the Saudi Coast in the Arabian Gulf‑ thereby serving as a bulwark against
Shia Iran that without our presence would have designs and capabilities against
Sunni Saudi Arabia;

‑ By the fawning obsequiousness our high government officials have
shown toward Saudi officialdom, (see "The Price of Oil, OPEC and Our Laws
and Now Welcome to Vichy" 5.4.06) or be it Price Bandar's open access to
the Oval Office while he was Ambassador in Washington and thereafter.

‑ Or as exemplified by the symbolic holding of then Price Abdullah's
hand at the Crawford Ranch meeting (see "Cheney in Saudi Land, Don't Hold
Abdullah's Hand" 01.16.06; and "President Bush's Most Respectful
Letter to King Abdullah on Energy Cooperation" 06.22.06 ) whose coziness
resulted in an almost immediate upward ratcheting of oil prices.

The administration's oil industry buddies are ecstatic at the windfall
the entire oil sector has reaped by the quadrupling of oil prices to levels
undreamed of before the advent of this Presidency, while many of the nations
citizens are having their household budgets ripped to shreds in order to meet
their home heating bills this coming winter. Rarely if ever in the history of
the Republic has there been such a divergence between the nation's interests
and those of the vested interests that formed this administration.

Does OBAMA GET PILES OF DIRTY SAUDI MONEY IF HE SELLS US OUT TO THE 9-11
INVADERS LIKE HILLARY, BILLARY, AND THE BUSH FAMILY-CARLYLE GROUP-SAUDI???

Obama administration seeks to quash suit by 9/11 families

By Barry Grey
26 June 2009

The Obama administration has intervened to quash a civil suit filed against
Saudi Arabia by survivors and family members of victims of the September 11,
2001 terrorist attacks. The suit seeks to hold the Saudi royal family liable,
charging that it provided financial and other support to Al Qaeda and was
thereby complicit in the hijack bombings that killed nearly 3,000 people in New
York and Washington DC.
According to an article by Eric Lichtblau in the June 24 New York Times,
documents assembled by lawyers for the 9/11 families “provide new evidence of
extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members
of the Saudi royal family.” However, the article states, the documents may
never find their way into court because of legal challenges by Saudi Arabia,
which are being supported by the US Justice Department.
The administration is taking extraordinary measures to kill the suit and
suppress the evidence of Saudi support for Al Qaeda and complicity in the 9/11
attacks. Last month, the Justice Department sided in court with the Saudi
monarchy in seeking to halt further legal action. Moreover, it had copies of
American intelligence documents on Saudi finances that had been leaked to
lawyers for the families destroyed, and is now seeking to prevent a judge from
even looking at the material.
Two federal judges and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals have already
ruled against the 7,630 people represented in the lawsuit, rejecting the suit
on the grounds that the plaintiffs cannot sue in the US against a sovereign
nation and its leaders. The Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on
whether to hear an appeal, but the families’ prospects have been weakened by
the intervention of the Obama administration, which has called on the court not
to hear the plaintiffs’ appeal.
The Times reports that it obtained the new documents from the families’
lawyers, adding that they are among “several hundred thousand pages of
investigative material” assembled by the 9/11 families in their long-running
suit against the Saudi royal family.
Lichtblau writes that the documents “provide no smoking gun connecting the
royal family to the events of September 11, 2001.” However, there is a wealth
of evidence in the public record strongly pointing to such a connection. And
there is the 28-page, classified section of the 2003 joint congressional inquiry
into 9/11 that deals with the Saudi role in the attacks. Lichtblau writes that
“the secret section is believed to discuss intelligence on Saudi financial
links to two hijackers.”
Then-President George W. Bush ordered that section of the congressional report
to be classified, and its contents were blacked out in the findings released to
the public by Congress. The Obama
administration is continuing this policy of shielding the Saudi monarchy.

Lichtblau reports that the material obtained by the Times from the families’
lawyers includes “thousands of pages of previously undisclosed documents” that
provide “an unusually detailed look at some of the evidence.” He cites as one
example “internal Treasury Department documents” that show that the
International Islamic Relief Organization, a “Saudi charity,” heavily supported
by members of the Saudi royal family, “provided ‘support for terrorist
organizations’ at least through 2006.”
He gives other examples of evidence of Saudi support for Islamist terrorists
in Bosnia in the 1990s and witness statements and intelligence reports of money
being given by Saudi princes to the Taliban and to “militants’ activities” in
Pakistan and Bosnia during the same decade.
What are the motives behind the Obama administration’s efforts to cover up
the connections between the Saudi monarchy and Al Qaeda?
The Justice Department, according to the Times, cites “potentially
significant foreign relations consequences” should the 9/11 families’ suit be
allowed to go to trial. This is undoubtedly a factor. The US has an immense
political and economic interest in protecting the Saudi dictatorship, which is
a major American ally in the Middle East, a supporter of Washington’s wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, and the world’s biggest producer of oil.
But there is a more immediate and compelling reason for suppressing any
exposure of the Saudi connection to Al Qaeda and 9/11. The revelations would
undoubtedly shatter the official explanations of the September 11 attacks and
point to complicity on the part of US intelligence and security agencies.
Given its longstanding and intimate ties to the Saudi royal family and Saudi
intelligence, it is not possible to believe that the CIA would have been
unaware of Saudi support for Al Qaeda and at least some of the 19 hijackers, 15
of whom were Saudi nationals, as they were preparing to carry out the attacks
on New York and Washington.
The ties between the Saudi and US intelligence establishments were
strengthened during the US-backed war against the pro-Soviet regime in
Afghanistan, beginning in 1979 and continuing through the 1980s. The US poured
billions of dollars in arms and financing into this war, most of it funneled
through the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence agency.
The Saudi regime also helped fund the anti-Soviet guerrillas, many of whom
were brought to Afghanistan by Islamist forces in the Middle East. Osama bin
Laden served as the Saudi regime’s personal emissary in this cause, helping to
organize, train and equip Arab volunteers for the Afghan war. The movement now
known as Al Qaeda was spawned through the interaction of these three
intelligence agencies—the CIA, the ISI and the Saudis.
The bipartisan 9/11 commission, in its July 2004 report, echoed the Bush
administration’s whitewash of Saudi ties to the terrorist attacks, declaring
that it found “no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or
senior Saudi officials individually funded” Al Qaeda.
However, in a book published later that year, Intelligence Matters,
then-Florida Senator Bob Graham charged the Bush administration with
orchestrating a cover-up of Saudi involvement in the September 11 attacks.
Graham was at the time the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence
Committee, which had carried out, along with its House counterpart, the joint
congressional investigation into 9/11.
He wrote that “evidence of official Saudi supportî for at least some of the
hijackers was ìincontrovertible.” Graham’s charges focused on the extraordinary
cases of Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who were identified as hijackers
of American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon.
The two men, both Saudi nationals, are undoubtedly the “two hijackers” to
whom Times reporter Lichtblau refers in connection with the secret section of
the joint congressional report on 9/11.
Both were known to US intelligence as Al Qaeda operatives at least since
1999. Malaysian agents, acting in concert with the CIA, photographed and
videotaped them and others during a 2000 meeting of Islamist terrorist groups
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Nevertheless, after the meeting, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar were allowed to fly
to the US using their own passports and visas issued by US consular authorities
in Saudi Arabia. While the CIA knew of their presence in the US, it did not inform
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to the FBI. (The CIA disputes
this claim, insisting that it did alert the FBI). Nor did the CIA inform
immigration authorities.
Graham wrote that this was the only time he had ever heard of the FBI refusing
to serve a congressional subpoena. He commented, “We were seeing in writing
what we had suspected for some time: the White House was directing a cover-up.”
Bush’s extraordinary intervention to block questioning of FBI informant
Shaikh was consistent with his administration’s actions in the immediate
aftermath of the September 11 attacks, when it allowed chartered planes to
ferry some 140 prominent Saudis—including at least a dozen of Osama bin Laden’s
relatives—to Boston for evacuation to Saudi Arabia. The pick-up flights were
organized at a time when all non-military and non-emergency aviation had been
grounded by government order. Bin Laden’s relatives were allowed to leave the
country with little or no questioning by the FBI.
Graham did not spell out what “damning” information about the 9/11
conspiracy the informant might have revealed. But the role of the CIA, the FBI
and the Bush administration in the case of al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar suggests
that it went beyond involvement by the Saudi government. It strongly suggests
he was blocked from being questioned out of concern that he would reveal that
elements within the US state apparatus knew of plans for an impending hijacking
and allowed them to go forward.
Eight years after the attacks, no one has been held accountable for what on
its face is the greatest failure of national security in US history. The
question is: Was it a failure, or was a decision taken to permit a terrorist
attack on US soil in order to provide the pretext for implementing plans for
wars abroad and repressive policies at home that had been drawn up well in
advance of September 11, 2001?
That a new administration is continuing the policy of shielding the Saudi
monarchy and suppressing evidence of its complicity in 9/11 points strongly to
the latter explanation.

*

JUDICIAL
WATCH

U.S.
Helps Radical Muslim Groups Get Taxpayer Dollars

Last
Updated: Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:57am

In
its fervent crusade to befriend Muslims, the White House will host special
workshops this week to provide members of radical Islamic groups with direct
access to U.S. government funding, assistance and resources.

While
this may sound surreal, it’s reality in the Obama Administration, which has
embarked on a never-ending mission to befriend the
enemy.
Previous efforts include secret meetings between Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano and extremist Arab and Muslim groups to discuss national
security matters and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s special order
allowing the reentry of two radical Islamic academics whose terrorist ties have
for years banned them from the U.S.

As
contemptible as those moves may seem, the latest effort is even more
outrageous. Various government agencies, including the departments of Homeland
Security, Agriculture, Education and Health will participate in the White House
seminars
which were exposed by an independent nonprofit dedicated to monitoring the
nation’s security.

The
goal is to provide the leaders of groups associated with the parent
organization of Hamas and Al Qaeda (Muslim Brotherhood) with tips on cutting
through “red tape” when seeking U.S. government access or money. In all 20
national Muslim groups with ties to the global Islamist organization that
preaches Jihad are scheduled to participate. Their mission is to obtain cash
and other resources from Uncle Sam.

While
the U.S. government has kept the event quiet, it was announced in a newsletter
by a Saudi-funded group (Islamic Society of North America or ISNA) that was a
co-conspirator in a federal terrorist funding case a few years ago. Featured in
a Judicial Watch special
report on
Muslim charities that finance terrorism, ISNA is firmly committed to spreading
the radical form of Islam, which is the driving force behind Jihad.

Now
the Obama Administration is helping ISNA and its radical Islamic counterparts
access American taxpayer resources as well as top government officials.

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The
latest death count by radical islam

2010.09.09 (Khyber, Pakistan) - Three laborers working in a forest are abducted
and murdered by Tehreek-e-Taliban.

2010.09.09 (Yala, Thailand) - Muslim separatists shoot a 52-year-old Buddhist
in the head then kick his body under a bridge.

2010.09.09 (Diyala, Iraq) - A woman is beheaded in her own home by suspected
al-Qaeda 'insurgents'.

Understanding the Wahhabist Infiltration of
America

Frank Salvato

Part of the reason many Americans don’t appreciate the significance of Osama
bin Laden’s declarations of war against the United States and the West is
because they are completely oblivious to the in roads radical Islam has made
within the United States. Radical Islamists (i.e., Islamofascists, Wahhabis)
understand that the conflict must take place on multiple fronts: militarily,
economically, diplomatically and ideologically. Because they understand the
complexity of the confrontation and the ability of the West to adapt to challenges
– albeit lethargically – they employ multiple tactics in their aggressive
pursuit of victory. The West’s addiction to sensationalism, epitomized by our
limited attention to detail, unless it plays in the superficial 24 hour news
cycle, facilitates the successful infiltration of radical ideology into Western
society.

Much to the chagrin of the multicultural and the proponents of diversity, those
who promote radical Islamist ideology thrive on the fact that the politically
correct culture of the West – and the United States in particular – deems it
inappropriate to question religious practices or teachings. With this
politically correct “wall of separation” in place little if any scrutiny is
given to the information disseminated within any given religious institution.
This directly facilitates the ideological advancement of Wahhabism, the most
radical and puritanical form of Islam, within the mosques of the United States.

To accurately understand the depth of infiltration of the Wahhabist ideology on
American soil we need to examine the ideology and how it is advanced within the
United States.

Wahhabism is a fiercely fundamentalist form of orthodox Sunni Islam. After a
brief examination of its tenets it is clear that it is one of division, domination
and hate.

Wahhabism originated circa 1703 and is the dominant form of Islam in Saudi
Arabia. Wahhabists believe that any and all evolution of the Islamic faith
after the 3rd century of the Muslim era – after 950 A.D. – was specious and
must be expunged. Consequently, Wahhabism is the form of Islam that Osama bin
Laden and Ayman al Zawahri practice.

This radically fundamentalist dogma is fanatically bigoted, xenophobic and
lends itself to serve as the catalyst for much of the Islamofascist aggression
being perpetrated around the world. It is a wrathful doctrine that rejects the
legitimacy of all religious philosophy but its own. Wahhabism condemns
Christians, Jews and all other non Muslims, as well as non Wahhabi Muslims.
Wahhabists believe it is a religious obligation for Muslims to hate Christians
and Jews.

It stresses a worldview in which there exist two opposing realms that can never
be reconciled Dar al Islam, or House of Islam, and Dar al Har, or House of War,
also referred to as Dar al Kufr, House of the Infidel. When Muslims are in the
Dar al Har, they must behave as if they were operatives in a conflict who have
been tasked with going behind enemy lines. The Wahhabist ideology permits
Muslims to exist “behind enemy lines” for only a few reasons: to acquire
knowledge, to make money to be later employed in the jihad against the
infidels, or to proselytize the infidels in an effort to convert them to Islam.

Wahhabist doctrine specifically warns Muslims not to imitate, befriend or help
“infidels” in any way. It instills hatred for United States because we are
ruled by legislated constitutional law rather than by tyrannical Sharia law.
Wahhabists are instructed by edict to, above all, work for the creation of an
Islamic state where ever they may dwell.

It is because of the Wahhabist ideology’s cruel and unyielding fanaticism that
we in the United States should be concerned with its prevalence within the
mosques of our nation.

After the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 – an unprecedented action by the
fundamentalists of the Shi’ite sect, the Saudi Arabian government responded by
coming to terms with the fundamentalist Wahhabist movement of the Sunni sect.
The Saudis, in return for a declaration of non aggression, began to finance the
construction of mosques in countries around the world. An estimated $45 billion
has been spent by the Saudis to finance the building and operational costs of
mosques and Islamic schools in foreign countries, including in North America.

*
The latest death count by radical islam

2010.09.09 (Khyber, Pakistan) - Three laborers working in a forest are abducted
and murdered by Tehreek-e-Taliban.

2010.09.09 (Yala, Thailand) - Muslim separatists shoot a 52-year-old Buddhist
in the head then kick his body under a bridge.

2010.09.09 (Diyala, Iraq) - A woman is beheaded in her own home by suspected
al-Qaeda 'insurgents'.

Through the funding of mosques, Islamic Centers and their operations, Saudi
Arabia is exporting the Wahhabist ideology. It is not unusual to find that the
presiding cleric in any given mosque within the United States is a Wahhabist
and that his teachings have been sanctioned and financed by the Saudi government
and vetted by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Two of the more predominant mosques in the United States that have received
funding from the Saudi government, and that adhere to the Wahhabist ideology,
are the al Farooq mosque in Brooklyn, New York, and the King Fahd mosque in Los
Angeles, California. Both mosques welcomed a number of the hijackers who
piloted the planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in
Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11th, 2001.

In 2005, Freedom House, a 501(c)(3) organization concerned with the mounting
threats to peace and democracy, released a report titled, Saudi Publications on
Hate Ideology Invade American Mosques. This examination of a comprehensive
sampling of mosques and Islamic Centers across America shows that literature
available in an overwhelming number of them indicates deference for the
Wahhabist ideology.

Among some of the edicts – or fatwas – issued through this literature:

?? “[I]t is basic Islam to believe that everyone who does not embrace Islam is
an unbeliever, and must be called an unbeliever, and that they are enemies to
Allah, his Prophet and believers.”

?? “[O]ur doctrine states that if you accept any religion other than Islam,
like Judaism or Christianity, which are not acceptable, you become an
unbeliever. If you do not repent, you are an apostate and you should be killed
because you have denied the Koran.”

?? “Be dissociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion, leave them,
never rely on them for support, do not admire them, and always oppose them in
every way according to Islamic law.”

?? “Never greet the Christian or Jew first. Never congratulate the infidel on
his holiday. Never befriend an infidel unless it is to convert him. Never
imitate the infidel. Never work for an infidel. Do not wear a graduation gown
because this imitates the infidel.”
?? “Those who reside in the land of unbelief out of their own choice and desire
to be with the people of that land, accepting the way they are regarding their
faith, or giving compliments to them, or pleasing them by pointing out
something wrong with the Muslims, they become unbelievers and enemies to Allah
and his messenger.”

?? “To be true Muslims, we must prepare and be ready for jihad in Allah’s way.
It is the duty of the citizen and the government. The military education is
glued to faith and its meaning, and the duty to follow it.”

With this ideology being taught in mosques across America, there is little
reason for speculating as to why hatred exists for American principles, culture
and ideology not only within the Islamic community, but among the societally
disenfranchised and ideologically vulnerable in the United States who are being
indoctrinated into this radical form of Islam.

This brings to the forefront a bothersome question. Why aren’t those of the
American Fifth Column, who are predisposed to seeking out the haters among us,
calling out the Wahhabist bigots who preach their hate in American mosques?

We in the West – and especially in the United States – must immediately seek
out a greater understanding of not only the basic elements of the threat of
radical Islam, but the extent to which it has already infiltrated our society.
If we continue to remain ignorant of the facts surrounding this very real war
against our way of life, we will lose our nation with nary a shot being fired.

Basics Project: Terrorism – Ideology http://www.basicsproject.org/terrorism/ideology.htm#Wahhabism
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Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism
(Paperback)
by DORE GOLD
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
In the global search for culprits and causes in the rise of terrorism, former
Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold shines a spotlight on a
nation many think of as a close ally of the United States: Saudi Arabia. As he
explains in Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global
Terrorism, Gold believes that the Saudi government is greatly influenced by the
Islamist sect known as Wahhabism and, he explains, that influence has lead to
Saudi support of terrorism in the Middle East, Europe, the United States and
around the world. The historical portion of Gold’s argument, where he traces
the emergence of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the changing face of Saudi
leadership, is admirably extensive and detailed. His modern research is a
little more uneven, relying on statements by various Muslim clergy members,
letters to the editors of newspapers, opinion pieces, and other evidence that
is rarely damnable. Curiously, mentions of Israel and the long-standing
Arab-Israeli conflict are much more infrequent than one would expect from an
Israeli diplomat and scholar. But regardless of one’s opinion of Gold’s
research or his alarming conclusions, the book offers something not often found
in modern political nonfiction: a coherent structure, exhaustive research, and
a clear and consistent perspective on the ongoing threat of terrorism. --John
Moe --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review
If you read one book to understand al-Qaeda’s fury...to us within the Muslim
world, it should be this -- R. James Woolsey, former director of the CIA --This
text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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US Supreme Court declines to hear case of 9/11 families
By Joe Kishore
30 June 2009
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case brought by families of
9/11 victims against Saudi Arabia, four members of the Saudi royal family, a
Saudi bank and a charity. The action lets stand a lower court ruling that the
Saudi members cannot be held liable in US courts.
The Obama administration supported the Saudi monarchs, who were accused of
financially supporting several of the individuals involved in the September 11,
2001 attacks. The administration last month intervened to ask the high court to
reject the appeal.
The family members claim that Saudi princes contributed to charities that
funded Al Qaeda and the 9/11 hijackers.
In August 2008, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a 2006
district court ruling that the Saudi officials and entities were protected
under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. The families argued that lower
courts had made conflicting rulings on the scope of sovereign immunity, and
that the Supreme Court should therefore intervene.
The Justice Department has sought furiously to prevent the release of documents
assembled by lawyers for the families, which, according to a New York Times
report, “provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and
other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family.” The government
has had copies of the documents destroyed and has sought to prevent judges from
even looking at them.
The US government has worked systematically to conceal from the American people
evidence of Saudi support for at least two of the hijackers, part of a broader
cover-up of the many unanswered questions that still surround the 9/11 attacks.
The documents gathered by the 9/11 families—including a classified section of
the 2003 joint congressional inquiry into the attacks—likely include material
on Nawaf al-Hamzi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, two Saudi nationals who were aboard
the planes that crashed on 9/11. They were known by US intelligence to be
members of Al Qaeda at least since 1999.
Despite their previous association, the two men were allowed into the US, where
they found accommodations with the help of a Saudi intelligence agent (Omar al-Bayoumi)
and, later, an FBI asset (Abdussattar Shaikh). Al-Bayoumi received financing
from Princess Haifa, the wife of the Saudi ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar.
The suit filed by the families focuses solely on the role of Saudi Arabia.
However, the more fundamental question is the role of sections of the American
state. The Saudi royal family has had long and intimate ties with American
intelligence, and the broader exposure of Saudi links to the attacks threatens
to unravel the entire official story of the September 11 attacks.

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From the Los Angeles Times

Terrorism money is still flowing

The United States vowed to smother funding, but a lack of
cooperation -- global and domestic -- along with other problems have hobbled
the effort.

By Josh Meyer
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

March 24, 2008

WASHINGTON — The U.S.-led effort to choke off financing for Al Qaeda and other
terrorist groups is foundering because setbacks at home and abroad have
undermined the Bush administration's highly touted counter-terrorism weapon,
according to current and former officials and independent experts.

In some cases, extremist groups have blunted financial anti-terrorism tools by
finding new ways to raise, transfer and spend their money. In other cases, the
administration has stumbled over legal difficulties and interagency fighting,
officials and experts say.

But the most serious problems are fractures and mistrust within the coalition
of nations that the United States admits it needs to target financiers of
terrorism and to stanch the flow of funding from wealthy donors to extremist
causes.

"The international cooperation and focus is dropping, the farther we get
from 9/11," said Michael Jacobson, who was a senior advisor in the
Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence until
March 2007. "Some countries lack political will. Others just don't have
the basic capacity to govern their countries, much lesscreate a viable
financial intelligence unit."

Many current and former officials and experts say that because of political,
legal, cultural and technical problems, the administration-led coalition is
deteriorating.

"Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other terrorist groups continue to have access
to the funds they need for active and expanded indoctrination, recruitment, maintenance,
armament and operations," said Victor D. Comras, a former United Nations
terrorism finance official.

Internationally, the sense of urgency over terrorism financing has waned since
the 2001 attacks. As political climates have changed and negative perceptions
of the United States have risen, key allies are cooperating less, current and
former officials say.

In the Middle East and elsewhere, many countries have resisted U.S. pressure to
investigate and identify financiers.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and other key nations have not taken the necessary steps
to crack down on terrorist financing or suspect money flowing across their
borders. Other countries, including Afghanistan and some African nations, lack
the financial infrastructure to cooperate meaningfully.

Also, the most deadly terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, have cost so
little -- often less than $10,000 -- that they are virtually impossible to
detect by following a money trail.

Cash couriers use donkeys and camels in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan,
for instance, and private jets are used in oil-rich Persian Gulf kingdoms to
move cash, gold and jewels. The networks continue to rely on a centuries-old
informal banking system known as hawala, which leaves virtually no
trail.

Overall, it is nearly impossible to distinguish funds meant for potential
terrorism from legitimate transactions, said a senior State Department
official, who, like some of the those interviewed, spoke on condition of
anonymity because of prohibitions against commenting on the record on
counter-terrorism.

Current and former U.S. officials acknowledge they are struggling, especially
because much-needed allies are unwilling or unable to assist.

"It's not as much that we're not properly executing our strategy,"
said Robert Grenier, a former senior CIA official. "It's that the strategy
is of limited utility in countering terrorism financing given the mechanisms
that terrorists use."

The effort begins

Thirteen days after the attacks on New York and the Pentagon, President Bush
announced "a major thrust of our war on terrorism . . . a strike on the
financial foundation of the global terror network."

"We will starve the terrorists of funding, turn them against each other,
rout them out of their safe hiding places and bring them to justice," Bush
said in a Rose Garden speech, flanked by his secretaries of Treasury and State.

Over the next six years, that effort stretched across the federal government,
including the CIA, the FBI and the Justice and Homeland Security departments.

The administration also enlisted allies and international organizations such as
the United Nations.

In the first years, scores of alleged terrorists and their financiers were
identified, and their banks and associates were targeted by officials
worldwide. The intelligence-gathering helped catch several important Al Qaeda
figures, including Hambali, Southeast Asia chieftain.

Stuart Levey, the Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial
intelligence, said in an interview last week that the campaign had deterred
would-be financiers and helped uncover terrorism funding sources.

The intelligence-gathering has exerted serious financial stress on Al Qaeda
networks, Levey said. As a result of Treasury and U.N. efforts, terrorists have
been forced out of the international banking system and into riskier ventures
that could ultimately trip them up, Levey said.

"I'm generally very pleased with the overall counter-terrorist financing
enterprise, especially with the worldwide pressure we have put on Al
Qaeda," he said. "No doubt, there are problems we haven't solved, but
we continue to treat them with the urgency they deserve."

Levey, who has made 75 foreign trips since 2004, is widely credited for
enlisting help from many governments. But like other current and former
officials at Treasury and elsewhere, Levey acknowledged that significant
challenges remain, especially on the international front.

A January report by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force said that the
international effort has had only limited success in detecting terrorism
financing activities. The United States and other participating countries must
reexamine how terrorists raise and move money and devise techniques to combat
them, said the task force, an international body that sets standards for
fighting money-laundering and terrorist financing.

Last June, the Defense Department issued its first report on financial
counter-terrorism, and found many shortcomings first cited by a 2002 independent
task force of the Council on Foreign Relations. Both recommended establishment
of a czar or agency to coordinate all U.S. agencies and report directly to the
White House. Both also called for a U.S.-led international organization
dedicated to investigating terrorist financing.

"To be successful, the U.S. must address the problem . . . under the
guidance and leadership of one overarching organization," said the report
by the Pentagon's School of Advanced Military Studies at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.

In the absence of such reforms, many say, the U.S. agencies involved remain
mired in infighting over who should lead the effort. "There is not a lot
of talking," said one recently departed senior Treasury official.
"There is a lot of elbowing . . . and there isn't any cooperation."

Levey and other agency representatives dispute that characterization. But the
Government Accountability Office and other watchdog organizations have reached
similar conclusions, regarding domestic and international issues.

Bush's vow 'oversold'

Some experts said that the financial war on terrorism simply can't deliver on
what the Bush administration promised.

"It's been way oversold," said Grenier, who heads global security
consulting for Kroll, a company that advises governments.

Grenier, who retired from the CIA in 2006 after 27 years, most recently as
director of the agency's Counterterrorism Center, said the government had
exaggerated the successes of financial enforcement while downplaying obstacles:
"There's been a lot of work done on it, a lot of focus. But as a method
for identifying and capturing terrorists, it has not been significant."

The results of the campaign are difficult to quantify.

But in recent years, few terrorist financiers of significance have been arrested.

Al Qaeda's resurgence in the tribal belt of Pakistan and elsewhere in the world
has been fueled by various methods of financing and moving money.

Immediately after Sept. 11, the Treasury Department began freezing the assets
of many individuals and entities with suspected links to Al Qaeda, the Taliban
and affiliates, barring them from doing business in the United States.

In many cases, the United Nations issued its own financial blocking orders,
which require member states to enforce them in an attempt to deny terrorists
access to the international financial system.

But in recent years, U.S. and U.N. designations have slowed to a trickle,
records show. Last year, only nine individuals accused of Al Qaeda-related
activities were designated by Treasury. And some of those designations describe
older acts that occurred as far back as the mid-1990s, mostly by low-level
operatives.

Moreover, even when blocking orders are issued by U.N. officials, giving an
international stamp to U.S. efforts, many countries are unable or reluctant to
act.

Despite hesitance to criticize a key U.S. ally, many current and former
officials said that vast contributions from Saudi Arabia and other wealthy gulf
donors have continued.

Saudi Arabia has promised since 2003 to enact major financial reforms, but has
yet to implement many of them, several senior U.S. officials said. The Saudis
have not established an accredited financial intelligence unit to detect
suspicious transactions or an oversight group to prevent donations to extremist
causes, current and former officials said.

Other countries lack even the most basic financial infrastructure to
participate.

One African government official told a visiting counter- terrorism delegation
that his nation had not disseminated U.N.-mandated blocking orders for hundreds
of suspected Al Qaeda operatives and entities because its various agencies
lacked Internet connectivity. Asked why the government hadn't distributed
printed copies, he said his office was allowed only one printer cartridge a
month and didn't want to waste it.

"When you hear problems like that, you almost want to give up," said
one former U.S. counter-terrorism official.

"We're spending billions of dollars, and a toner cartridge can affect
whether a whole country implements the list."

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F.B.I. 10% OF MOSQUES IN AMERICA PREACH JIHAD!

Nov 13 2009 - NewsMax
by Ronald Kessler

Imams preach jihad and extremism in 10 percent of the 2,000
mosques in the United States, the FBI estimates.

That sums up the problem facing us as we ponder the meaning of Army Maj. Nidal
Malik Hasan's slayings of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas. Given his association
with a pro–al–Qaida imam in northern Virginia and his preoccupation with
radical Islamic Web sites, it's clear that the radical element of Islam
influenced Hasan.

F.B.I. 10% OF MOSQUES IN AMERICA PREACH
JIHAD!

Nov
13 2009 - NewsMax
by Ronald Kessler

Imams preach jihad and extremism in
10 percent of the 2,000 mosques in the United States, the FBI estimates.

That sums up the problem facing us as we ponder the meaning of Army Maj. Nidal
Malik Hasan's slayings of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas. Given his association
with a pro–al–Qaida imam in northern Virginia and his preoccupation with
radical Islamic Web sites, it's clear that the radical element of Islam
influenced Hasan.

Armstrong Williams

The Endless
Wars of Islam

Islam
emerged from what is modern day Saudi Arabia in the 7th century, and never
looked back. Muslim armies swept across North Africa and invaded Catholic
Spain, destroying or converting the Christian communities along the way. They
turned churches into mosques, and made Islam the official religion. Muslim
armies also took over the Holy Land, destroyed the last non-Islamic Persian
empire, and moved into Asia Minor (modern day Turkey). By the 16th century,
Islam had destroyed the Christian Byzantine Empire, had taken over
Constantinople, and had turned the Hagia Sophia -- the most beautiful church in
Christendom -- into a mosque. A century later, Muslim armies were outside the
gates of Vienna.

While
the years have passed and the names of the armies and countries have changed,
Islam's war against the rest of us continues at full speed. There isn't a day
that goes by without a new terrorist attack carried out by a Muslim militant.
Women are stoned in Afghanistan because they had the nerve to be raped...
Children are beaten to death and strung up in Pakistan, because they were
suspected of theft... Non-Muslims living in Muslim countries are in constant
fear of kidnapping and murder... It's even happening here. In Buffalo, New
York, a Muslim-American television executive who attempted to use his station
to improve U.S public opinion about Muslims later beheaded his wife after she
filed for divorce. Of the roughly 25 wars currently ongoing, 21 involve Muslim
countries. Put differently, Islam is connected to 80% of the planet's armed
conflicts, while making up only 20% of its population. There's a reason for
that.

In
Islam the world exists in two Houses. The House of Peace, where Islam is the
recognized religion, and the House of War, where Islam is fighting to become
the recognized religion, and because Islam teaches that Allah may change his
mind at any time, for Muslims, there is no stable and universal moral code.
When you eliminate reason as a guide in human thinking, force is the only thing
that determines truth. For that reason, in the House of War, anything goes.

In
regard to the Park51 mosque, both critics and supporters are getting the
context wrong. They're framing the debate as if it were a New York or American
affair -- a local dispute over land use. This is dangerously naive. The context
isn't New York in the year 2010, but the whole world since the seventh century.
If you ignore that, you miss the entire point, and are reduced to explaining
the protests as examples of bigotry or religious intolerance.

Islam
has always grown through conquest, never through peaceful conversion or
persuasion. Furthermore, there is nothing in Islam that allows for religious
freedom, because Islam rejects the use of reason. If you can't depend on
reason, then what's the point of having the freedom to use it? After all, it
will only mislead you. In Islam, you're expected to submit to God (as he is
presented to you by Islam), no matter what your reason or logic tells you.

That
theological point has real-world consequences: The God of Islam will do what he
will do, when he wants to do it, and there's no telling what that might be. God
might make the sun rise tomorrow... Or he may not. He may upend the laws of
gravity, or he might maintain them. We don't know, it's all up to Allah. That
means we don't live in a stable natural world, and science is therefore
impossible. That's the reason the Islamic world has fallen so far behind in
technology, science, and medicine -- because they've rejected its very
foundation. That's also why democracy is ultimately incompatible with the
religion: If you can't depend on reason, how could you successfully choose a
leader? Instead, a leader will be chosen for you by whatever Islamic authority
has jurisdiction.

Contrast
that with the attitudes of both Christianity and Judaism throughout history.
While both have had (sometimes serious) conflicts -- and have carried out
periods of religious suppression -- they both share a devotion to God-given
human reason. Think of what that makes possible: People can be persuaded
through argument, and not violence. Might no longer makes right. When
Christians and Jews have violated this in the past, it is because they have
acted contrary to the foundations of their religions, not because of it.

This
devotion to reason also creates room for religious freedom. If we can use
reason as a guide, then truth -- if presented fairly -- will be more compelling
than error. We don't need to impose our religion through force (as is the case
with Islam), but can simply create a free society where people can make their
own decisions about faith and government. They'll sometimes be wrong, but when
they are, it's because they neglected some aspect of their reason.

Islam
is entirely different. They rejected philosophy in the 11th century, and have
been in a cultural free fall ever since. Muslims are fine with religious
freedom when they're in the minority in a country, because it gives them room
to grow. But once they become the majority, they transform the nation into
something else entirely, because a liberal democracy run by human reason is an
offense (and an impossibility) to the Muslim Mind. Islam doesn't thrive in a liberal
democracy; it merely bides its time.

DURING OBAMA’S TIME IN THE WHITE HOUSE, HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS’
PROFITS and LOOTING SOARED! SO HAVE FORECLOSURES!

BANKS MADE MORE DURING OBAMA’S FIRST TWO YEARS THAN ALL EIGHT UNDER BUSH.
OBAMA KEPT HIS PROMISE THAT NOT ONE BANKSTER WOULD BE PUNISHED... HIS DOJ IS
TOO BUSY PUSHING OBAMA’S LA RAZA AGENDA OF NO E-VERIFY, NO ID REQUIRED OF
ILLEGALS, AND DREAM ACT AMNESTIES....

HOLDER HAS ARMED THE MEX DRUG CARTELS, APPEARED AT LA RAZA CONVENTIONS TO
KISS UP TO OBAMA’S PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS, AND SUED AMERICAN STATES TO PUSH
OBAMA’S LA RAZA AGENDA!

WASHINGTON -- The poor and middle
classes have shouldered by far the heaviest burdens of the global political
obsession with austerity policies over the past three years. In the United
States, budget cuts have forced states to reduce education, public
transportation, affordable housing and other social services. In Europe,
welfare cuts have driven some severely disabled individuals to fear for their
lives.

Austerity's Big Winners Prove To Be Wall Street And
The Wealthy

Posted: 07/23/2012 1

This article is part
of a Huffington Post series on the global impact
of austerity
-- "A Thousand Cuts" -- from affordable housing funds lost in San
Francisco to increasing class sizes in New York, food inspector cuts in Canada,
disability benefits taken away in the United Kingdom, decimation of France's
solar industry, and more. Click here for
information on how you can help
people affected by these measures.

WASHINGTON -- The poor and middle
classes have shouldered by far the heaviest burdens of the global political
obsession with austerity policies over the past three years. In the United
States, budget cuts have forced states to reduce education, public
transportation, affordable housing and other social services. In Europe,
welfare cuts have driven some severely disabled individuals to fear for their
lives.

But the austerity
game also has winners. Cutting or eliminating government programs that benefit
the less advantaged has long been an ideological goal of conservatives. Doing
so also generates a tidy windfall for the corporate class, as government
services are privatized and savings from austerity pay for tax cuts for the
wealthiest citizens.

U.S. financial
interests that stand to gain from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security
cutbacks "have been the core of the big con," the
"propaganda," that those programs are in crisis and must be slashed,
said James Galbraith, an economist at the University of Texas.

Advocates of
austerity measures have sold their proposals as a means to improve the economy.

"It is an error
to think that fiscal austerity is a threat to growth and job creation,"
declared European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet in July
2010.

"We're going to
cut spending to get the debt down, help create jobs and prosperity, and reform
government programs," vowed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the House
Budget Committee, in a February
2011 commentary for Real Clear
Politics. Ryan would later declare that his budget plan, with far more aggressive
austerity measures than those ultimately enacted by Congress -- including $6.2
trillion in spending cuts -- would have spurred
$1.5 trillion in economic growth
and created 2.5 million jobs.

As for the 2010
Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan, it is often described by Beltway
insiders as a "centrist" proposal that could "bring the
country together" and improve
the economy. In fact, Simpson-Bowles is yet another austerity program that would cut Medicare and Social
Security while securing tax breaks for corporations and the well-off, according
to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Erskine Bowles,
co-chairman of the bipartisan commission that worked on the plan, is a director
at Morgan Stanley, the sixth-largest American bank and a financial institution
for which the United States made huge commitments to help it weather the
economic downturn. Morgan Stanley took $10 billion in bailout funds under the
Troubled Asset Relief Program and received more than $100 billion a day in
cheap loans from the Federal Reserve at the height of the past financial
crisis. For weeks, Morgan Stanley borrowed more money
from the Fed than the company's stock market value.

That solicitude for
the profits of big corporations shows up in Simpson-Bowles too. The plan offers
multiple corporate tax reform proposals, but one, which calls for shifting to a
so-called territorial tax system, would be especially advantageous to Morgan
Stanley and other Wall Street banks. It would allow U.S. companies to
permanently avoid paying U.S. taxes on overseas income, including money stashed
in offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands. According to a 2008 report by the
Government Accountability Office,
Morgan Stanley operates 273 sub-companies headquartered in such tax havens.

While Social Security advocateshave
attacked the plan, the
Business Roundtable, a lobbying group for corporate CEOs, has praised
Simpson-Bowles. So has Peter
Peterson, who served as Richard Nixon's commerce secretary before founding
Blackstone Group, a major private equity firm. Peterson has long advocated cuts
to Social Security and Medicare, and he started a think tank devoted to federal
debt reduction in 2008.

As many
economists predicted,
however, the austerity policies implemented after the financial crisis have
proved to be a losing proposition for the global economy. The strong economic
growth that austerity advocates predicted has not materialized, with the United
States showing only anemic improvements, and European countries sliding back
into devastating recessions.

At the same time,
corporate profits in the financial industry remain above even the levels
reached at the height of the housing bubble, according to Commerce Department
data. And elites on both sides of the Atlantic have secured generous tax
breaks, made possible in part by cuts to social services.

In the United States,
President George W. Bush's tax breaks for the wealthiest citizens were
extended, while unemployment benefits and even food
stamps have gone on the
chopping block.

This tradeoff is even
more apparent at the state level. In 2010, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R)
opted not to make the $3 billion annual contribution to the state workers'
pension fund, instead
securing $1 billion in tax cuts
for the state's better-off residents. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has
similarly proposed budgets that provide tax breaks for corporations and the
rich while demanding pay and benefit cuts for middle-class state workers.

"Austerity
policies are literally a redistribution from the bottom of the income spectrum
to the top," said Dorian Warren, a professor of political science at
Columbia University and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, an economic policy
think tank. "In Wisconsin, both wealthy people and businesses got tax
breaks, while middle-class and working-class employees of the state essentially
got crushed."

Warren emphasized
that there are political dimensions to the austerity push. Efforts to curb
collective bargaining rights -- and thus pay and benefits -- for state
employees cut to the heart of the American labor movement. With only 7 percent
of the private-sector workforce unionized, public-sector unions are a critical
component of labor's political influence and an important bloc in Democratic
Party operations.

Governments in
Europe, most notably the United Kingdom, have also pursued
tax cuts for the rich
while imposing austerity measures on the working classes. And the European
financier class has benefited even more directly than their American
counterparts from these budgets.

Every time the
European Union has reached a crisis point on the debt carried by Greece or
Spain, EU leaders, especially German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have come to the
rescue with bailout funds. That money goes to the banks that own Greek and
Spanish debt, whose holdings would take a hit if either country were unable to
repay. But the bailout comes with harsh austerity requirements intended to
encourage budgetary discipline, so it's ordinary citizens who end up taking the
hit. The most vulnerable populations are harmed by the bailouts, while the
well-paid financial professionals who made the deals to finance Greek and
Spanish deficits in the first place continue profiting handsomely.

"Imposing pain
on Greeks is ... a blood price for the ever-repeated bailouts whose actual
beneficiaries are said to be Greeks, but are in fact French and German
bankers," said Galbraith.

The consequences have
been dire. In Greece, HIV/AIDS infections have soared
1,500 percent since the end of
2010, as public health programs and anti-drug campaigns have been decimated.
Unemployment has risen above 20 percent in both Greece and Spain.

Yet none of this has
slowed the bipartisan American political movement for greater austerity. The
U.S. budget will reach the so-called fiscal cliff at the end of the year, when
a number of tax breaks expire and harsh budget cuts under the 2011 debt ceiling
deal kick in. Republicans in Congress are calling for additional slashing of
federal spending, and they have been joined by Wall Street Democrats. Former
Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.), now a managing director at Morgan Stanley who
supported the American bank bailout, advocated for austerity during a June
appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"Obviously, we
hope that things go well there in Greece," Ford said. "And when I
say, 'well,' I mean that the austerity camp wins out."

“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs
taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of
Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on
the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should
support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they
need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”

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THE
BELOW FIGURES ARE DATED. IT’S NOW ESTIMATED THAT THE MEX OCCUPATION DEPRESSES
WAGES FROM $300 TO $400 BILLION PER YEAR.

THIS
IS WHY OBAMA SABOTAGED E-VERIFY, AND THE U.S. CHAMBER of COMMERCE SUPPORTS
OBAMA’S OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS, AND SABOTAGE OF E-VERIFY!

OBAMA’S
SEC. of ILLEGAL LABOR IS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS. SHE DECLARES THAT
“WE” ARE ALL AMERICANS. LEGALS AND MEX LOOTERS!

“The principal
beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire
immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George
Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed
wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.”Christian Science Monitor

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“Listen to people from the National
Council of La Raza, LULAC, CARECEN, Latino TV networks, the Piolin radio show
(that’s Hispanic anti-Rush Limbaugh), and you will see that the U.S. is replete
with its own Chavezes-in-waiting.”

In the past week,
since the Supreme Court upheld a key component of Arizona’s anti-illegal
immigration law S.B. 1070, millions of illegal alien migrants spoke defiantly
against the law and grew more vociferous in their collective voice to break the
law.

Over eight million of
them work full time jobs in our communities across the nation. Over 20 million
of them reside in our country in violation of our laws. They siphon our
medical, educational, welfare and prison systems out of multiple billions of
dollars.

They benefit only
rich corporations that hire those illegals, yet the average American taxpayer
subsidizes illegals’ presence in this country. The rich benefit while citizens
pay their bills. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports illegals and presses for
an endless stream of them. Notice that stream continues year in and year out
for the past 30 years.

The U.S. Congress
continues to kick the can down the road. Speaker of the House John Boehner
nullifies, at every juncture, any attempt to pass E-Verify to force employers
to check immigration status. The House and Senate continue to pump no less than
100,000 legal green card holding foreign workers into this country every 30
days, 12 months of the year. Corporations force additional H-2B Silicon Valley
visas to insource jobs away from millions of Americans. Farmers and ranchers
cheat the H-2A visas that would give them unlimited legal farm labor in favor
of illegal alien labor—but cheaper and off the books. Finally, the past five
presidents failed to enforce our immigration employment laws at every intersection.

It’s as if, our
presidents and Congress want to take this country down to its knees. No amount
of logic, no amount of suffering by our middle class, no amount of poverty will
make our leaders stop this massive illegality thriving within our country.

Result: we are losing
our national identity. Last week, Muslims in Detroit stoned peaceful marching
Christians and the police arrested the Christians rather than go after the
Muslims who were clearly breaking the law. Mexicans continue their takeover of
Los Angeles, Chicago and other major cities by displacing our language and
customs in our own country. Arabic grows in its majority language status in
Detroit and even in Washington DC from influx of Middle Eastern immigrants that
refuse to meld into the American mosaic.

Legal and illegal
immigration constitute the greatest internal issue of our country since slavery
at the signing of the U.S. Constitution.

I talked with
Bromwell Ault, director of the www.centerforpublicconscience.org in West Palm Springs, Florida. He
writes and publishes the “Matters of Conscience” quarterly.

He addressed
Florida’s rampant illegal immigration problem with his local paper.

“Your recent coverage
of this topic, like most others, fails to adequately inform the reader of the
importance of this issue,” Ault said. “Which could well turn out to be the most
threatening internal issue we have faced since slavery.

“Although there are
multiple similarities between them, far too many Americans view immigration as
a question that should and will be solved by Congress. They are dead right
about "should" and tragically wrong about "will", as every
congress and president since the Reagan amnesty of 1986 has "kicked the
can down the road" by refusing to enforce existing law. This is a deeply
flawed choice that destroys the balance between our three branches of
government that is spelled out and required by our Constitution.

“Immigration, like
slavery, is not just one issue. Both raise serious constitutional, economic,
political and social questions which, of course, our political representatives
are unwilling to address because it is impossible to discuss immigration
sensibly and openly without causing offense or creating opposition to one or
more constituencies. As votes are easily lost by having firm opinions, the
tactic of choice is to speak as generally as possible and to defer any real
action.

“This is not new. Our
founding fathers and their successors dodged the slavery bullet for seventy
years during which time the money and power that surrounded the issue grew ever
larger until it was no longer possible to be contained. We are engaged in the
same process today with immigration with the exception that the numbers today
(i.e., population, money, votes, taxpayer funding, etc.) are exponentially
larger than they were 150 years ago.

“The American voter
deserves a better presentation of our growing immigration crisis than has so
far been made available from government, the main stream media, both major
political parties and our educational and religious institutions.”

Ironically, Obama
enhances and supports illegal migration. Congress does everything to continue
it. No matter how bad it gets for Americans, their own leaders will continue import
100,000 legal immigrants every 30 days until our national identity, language,
educational systems cannot and will not remain American.

Worse, the American
people sit, stand, grow fat and lethargic year after year as their national
identity morphs into multiple countries and languages.

Look at what is
happening and will happen. We continue on course to add 100 million immigrants
within 38 years—by 2050. (Source: PEW Hispanic Report, “US Population
Projections” Fogel/Martin at www.FAIRUS.org and U.S. Census Bureau)

In a five minute
astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration,
Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation. Take
five minutes to see for yourself:

But the kind of
America that you see in the second demonstration does not have to happen. You
can prevent it by working with www.NumbersUSA.org and www.CapsWeb.org
and become part of nearly 1.5 million Americans who send in pre written faxes
to force your Congressional critters to change course. Do it today and tell all
your friends.

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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents - from the Arctic to the
South Pole - as well as eight times across the USA, coast to coast and border
to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens,
Greece. His latest book is: How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of
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